It was great to see our top federal and provincial political leaders trekking out to Constance Bay to express their concern about the devastating effects of the flooding. It would be much more valuable for them to work together to protect our city, our province and our country from future floods.
We need a serious climate adaptation plan and the money to pay for it. Such a plan is within our grasp, if only we could get Liberal and Conservative politicians to stop thinking of climate change as an election wedge issue and grasp the fact that it affects real people’s lives. They are both wrong. Sure, it’s a tax but it’s a puny one that has been dwarfed by dramatic increases in the price of actual gasoline. Nor is the carbon tax the big climate change boon the Liberals would have us believe. The government says the tax makes up no more than 20 per cent of the federal climate change plan, which will itself fall short of the government’s emissions reduction targets.
There is a better way, one that can please both parties. Keep the tax in place, but rebrand it as a climate adaptation fund and use the money solely for that purpose. The $2.6 billion the carbon charge will raise this year would go a long way towards relocating people, building bridges that are out of the reach of flood waters, protecting vital infrastructure such as water plants and developing or purchasing technology that is less labour-intensive than sand-bagging.
A new tax and a few hundred additional civil servants to return the tax to the people who were taxed can make the term flood plain obsolete. Lets do this!!
Yup ... this pretty much says it all.
Get out of the way Mr PM. Says every libertarian. JustinTrudeau
Flood lessons--don't build on a floodplain. They call them that for a reason.
Or maybe people shouldn’t live in flood zones
You can’t control the climate by taxing Canadians.
Ottawa River 100 years ago. Think they blamed it on climate change then?
Is this the photo-op where they yelled at him? Such a useless bum.
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From an actual climate scientist
Let’s unite on implementing the actual solution: Generation 4 nuclear power. Zero emissions. It can’t meltdown. It uses nuclear waste from older nuclear plants as fuel. Why tax ourselves to death for no benefit when the solution exists now?
Then media and politicians need to have open discussions of the actual science. “There is low confidence due to limited evidence, however, that anthropogenic climate change has affected the frequency and the magnitude of floods.”
Not a single politician or party has provided a serious climate change policy Lots of fearmongering about something that has been happening since the earth was formed and lots of financial policies meant to redistribute wealth but no serious climate change policy
Politicians should pay a 90% tax...to help the climate
Building parking lots and roadways for housing in what used to be farmland, doesn't allow the water to be absorbed, but concentrated into storm drains and directly runoff into lakes and rivers. Causing higher flow rates.
China and India are the worst polluters. ... but they get a pass
Like zoning laws that keep people from building in floodplains. CarbonTax will do nothing. We all know that.
A Katimaviktum Alum, teaching his kids to be Katimaviktum's too!! Bless his heart!! LOL!!!